books

The Dictionarium

January 16, 2012

Flickr: The Dictionarium – In contemporary usage, a place for those obsessive types who collect or take pictures of dictionaries of all shapes, sizes, types and linguistic predilections. Not something I have thought to do. But, I do actually have a photo of my dictionary. I took the photo because I had a pressed flower [...]

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The End for Book Reading?

September 15, 2011

I found this link on Scoop.It: Publishing. Is this the end for books? | Books | The Guardian. Certainly, electronic books have overcome their technological obstacles. Page turns are fast enough, battery life is long enough, and screens are legible in sunlight. Digital sales now account for 14% of Penguin’s business. But there are reasons to [...]

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A Ghost Book

June 13, 2011

This was painted by Mark Ryden. It reminds me of Miranda, the ghost girl in a book I read about 30 years ago. I wish I could remember the book, who wrote it. When I read it I knew it was a book I would want to read again when I was older and would [...]

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Pledge to Read the Printed Word

April 2, 2011

Found on Domestic Cherry while looking at bloggers I used to visit regularly when I was part of Entrecard. Read the Printed Word – We support the printed word in all its forms: newspapers, magazines, and of course books. We think reading on computers or phones or whatever is fine, but it cannot replace the [...]

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